Verizon & AT&T Move To Alter Internet After Net Neutrality Struck Down

[matthewf]

[iemitsu]

1. We all need to do the things being suggested here.

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Sign petitions, call representatives, and talk with our friends and relatives about the importance of having the internet open and equal for all, who want to contribute.
If we don't the net will become like our television media and only narrow voices will ever percolate to the surface.
It seems incredible to me that their are so many, in our society, willing to undercut our ability to compete globally (while tolling the importance of being prepared to do just that).

[truedelphi]

5. But the really important thing is that we somehow overcome having

Corporate Puppets/Stooges sitting in place to do their Puppet Masters' bidding inside our state legislatures, in Congress and in the White House.

It is totally to the interests of those in power that we the mostly powerless are denied the ability to continue to spread news among ourselves. And since an open internet is not to their liking, and since an open internet actually threatens them, the last thing those curently sitting in office would do is to enable that open internet.

While people on this site think the scariest thing for Republicans in power is abortion clinics, what was actually far scarier to them was how in Autumn 2012, Ron Paul's supporters were able to figure out the protocols of the Republican convention and in many places across the USA, get more votes than the candidate that the Republican "Management" said won the election. Without the internet, being free and open, this would not have happened.

The Ron Paul event not only scared Republican leadership but Democratic leadership also. Sooner or later, people in the Democratic Party who are totally sick of what the party has become might study Paul's supporters' strategies and adopt them to redefine the Democratic Party from within.

The last thing the leadership of either party wants is to continue to allow the "fringe" voters to bring forth candidates that do not exemplify corporate Might and Will, and who might actually return some power to the Middle and lower classes!.

[iemitsu]

10. I agree with your analysis.

This is exactly why our "democratic" leaders fear an open exchange of information.
They have been used to saying whatever they wanted to us without our being able to quickly verify what was being said. Now that is tougher to do.

[Gman]

6. They don't care about anything else other than profits.

I know.

[Bennyboy]

2. If there is ONE ISSUE that everybody gives less of a fuck about than this one

let me know.

Have you tried to talk to people about this/ They do not understand the concept.

[Wait Wut]

3. Yeah.

When they seem to understand, they still give less than a fuck. Whenever someone starts whining about crappy internet service or shitty cable choices, that's my cue to rant. The response I get is a lot of nothing.

[BelgianMadCow]

4. I-do-give-a-damn - kick

when the internet gets the cable treatment, that is yet another avenue for change blocked. But it will come anyway.

[iemitsu]

11. Americans have been trained to have that response to

many of the pressing issues in our lives.
Learned apathy.

[bl968]

7. Congress is bought and paid for

Comcast Gives $7,685,746 to buy congress including $854k to the committee that oversees the FCC. http://maplight.org/content/73407

Comcast has bought and paid for congress...

We need to remove corporate personhood and specifically itemize the rights corporations are permitted.

[pam4water]

8. K&R

[2banon]

9. In a nutshell: Demand FCC to RE-CLASSIFY BROADBAND AS COMMON CARRIER SERVICE

That is the language, that's all that needs to be said.

[iemitsu]

12. Yes, thanks for pointing this out. If the FCC can't do this simple thing then

we will know that they don't want an open net either.
How and when did public agencies become so hostile to the public?

[2banon]

14. Wrt to the FCC started with Reagan and then Clinton finished it off.

political appointees are placed on the commission. Colin Powell's son Michael Powell has been one of the worst. There's history here, worth learning about.

[iemitsu]

15. Yeah, I know some of it.

My question was rhetorical.

[2banon]

16. Sorry, I missed the nuance.. too furious about the issue, I guess.

FCC commissioners need to hear from everyone on this matter.

Go to the link to take you to a brief bio on all 5 sitting Commissioners who were appointed by the President.

In the upper right corner is a "Take Action" tab with a drop down menu to leave comment or to lodge a complaint. I'd simply cut and paste exact wording in the previous "in a nutshell" post.

[iemitsu]

18. Thank you for the information.

I'm furious about this too.

[blkmusclmachine]

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[matthewf]

17. Thanks everybody! n/t